For crossword fans working on “Ancestry”, these answers have all been part of solved puzzles featuring the same clue language. They offer a solid place to begin your next move.
Suggested Answers:
- DESCENT
- LINE
- ROOTS
- LINEAGE
- PEDIGREE
- HERITAGE
- ANTECEDENTS
- BIRTH
- ORIGINS
- BLOODLINE
- STRAIN
- PARENTAGE
Synonyms and Definitions
DESCENT
- Synonyms: blood, blood line, bloodline, declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, extraction, fall, filiation, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
LINE
- Synonyms: agate line, air, argument, argumentation, assembly line, bank line, billet, business, business line, cable, channel, communication channel, contrast, course, crease, credit line, crinkle, delineate, demarcation, descent, describe, dividing line, draw, furrow, job, line of business, line of credit, line of merchandise, line of products, line of reasoning, line of work, logical argument, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, note, occupation, personal credit line, personal line of credit, phone line, pipeline, product line, production line, rail line, railway line, run along, seam, short letter, strain, subscriber line, telephone circuit, telephone line, trace, transmission line, tune, wrinkle
ROOTS
- Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, base, beginning, etymon, radical, root word, rootage, rootle, rout, settle, settle down, solution, source, steady down, stem, take root, theme, tooth root
LINEAGE
- Synonyms: derivation, linage
PEDIGREE
- Synonyms: pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred
HERITAGE
- Synonyms: inheritance
ANTECEDENTS
- Synonyms: forerunner, root
BIRTH
- Synonyms: bear, birthing, deliver, give birth, giving birth, have, nascence, nascency, nativity, parturition
- Definition: The moment something starts (particularly life)
ORIGINS
- Synonyms: inception, origination
STRAIN
- Synonyms: breed, deform, distort, extend, filter, filter out, filtrate, form, mental strain, nervous strain, nisus, pains, puree, reach, separate out, sieve, sift, song, straining, stress, strive, striving, tenor, tense, tense up, try, var., variant
PARENTAGE
- Synonyms: birth, parenthood